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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 12, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Evening Auction | 114 | $****** - ****** | The Canvas |
paintings
170.4 x 200.8 cm (67.09 x 79.06 in)
oil on canvas
signed (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1973 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
The Artist
The Estate of the Artist
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner
Robert Taylor, "Guston: The Raw and the Refined," Boston Sunday Globe , 24 March 1974, p. A-12, illustrated
Kay Larson, "From Abstraction to the Absurd: The Transformation of Philip Guston," Real Paper , 3 April 1974, pp. 20-21 (text)
Sondra Levin, "Guston Works Displayed in SFAA; Visions of Forms, Tales of Feelings," Daily Free Press , 9 April 1974, n.p. (text)
Dore Ashton, Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston , New York 1976, p. 180, illustrated
Clark Coolidge, "Clark Coolidge Class 1," Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics , Boulder 1 July 1980, audio recording
Robert Storr, Philip Guston , New York 1986, no. 106, p. 108, illustrated
Dore Ashton, A Critical Study of Philip Guston , Berkeley 1990, p. 180, illustrated
Anon., "Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston," TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & the Visual Arts 2 , issue no. 3-4, 1994, pp. 159-206; p. 164, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Les Sables d"Olonne, Musée de l"Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d"Olonne, Philip Guston (1913-1980) Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980 , June - September 1995, n.p., illustrated
Vincente Jarque, "Philip Guston, librepensador de la pintura," El País , 22 December 2001, p. 22 (text)
Carolina Miralles, "Philip Guston," La Glorieta , Arte , 2001, p. 7 (text)
Alexander van Grevenstein, "Philip Guston: The Demos (1973-1979)," trans. Beth O"Brien, Bonnefanten Magazine , Summer 2002, p. 19, illustrated in colour
Keith Bruce, "Between Pollock and Warhol," Herald , 27 July 2012, p. 19 (text)
Moira Jeffrey, "Different Strokes," Scotland on Sunday , 29 July 2012, p. 12 (text)
Adrian Hamilton, "Philip Guston, The Hand That Rocked the Art Establishment," Independent , 22 August 2012, pp. 44-45, illustrated in colour (online)
Alastair Sooke, "Philip Guston: Late Paintings, Inverleith House, Review," The Telegraph , 21 August 2012, text (online)
Merlin James, "Late Guston, Edinburgh," Burlington Magazine , vol. 154, no. 1316, November 2012, p. 810 (text)
Thaddeus Radell, "Philip Guston: A Problematic Centennial," Painting Perceptions , 2 April 2013, n.p., illustrated in colour (online)
Anon., “Eye on Art: Paintings and Sculpture,” Blouin ArtInfo , New York 16 April 2013, video, detail illustrated in colour (online) [3:07-3:10]
Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle (and travelling), Philip Guston, Das Grosse Spätwerk, Late Works , November 2013 - September 2014, pp. 24-25, text; no. 14, p. 25, illustrated in colour
Dr. Karen Lang, "Philip Guston and the Allegory of Painting," Annual Review 2013, The Leverhulme Trust , 2014, p. 46, illustrated in colour (detail)
Scott Reyburn, "Defying Fears of a Cooling Market," The New York Times , 11 December 2015, illustrated in colour (online)
Jonathan Fineberg, Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain , Lincoln 2015, no. 55, p. 71, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Venice, Gallerie dell"Accademia di Venezia, Philip Guston & The Poets , 2017, p. 56 (text); p. 70, illustrated in colour
Robert Storr, Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting , London 2020, no. 150, p. 148, illustrated in colour; p. 152 (text)
Musa Mayer, Philip Guston , London 2020, p. 82, illustrated in colour; p. 85 (text)
Clark Coolidge, 16 Poems for Philip Guston , Portland 2021, p. 5, illustrated in colour
Property from a Private Collection
Philip Guston
1913 - 1980
The Canvas
signed (lower right); signed, titled, dated 1973 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
170.4 by 200.8 cm.
67⅛ by 79 in.
Executed in 1973.
